Nekrogoblikon’s Alex Alereza and I sat down recently, dressed as humans, and he showed me how to play the first solo from their song “The Many Faces of Dr. Hubert Malbec” from their brand new album Welcome to Bonkers. It’s a tricky solo, but just take it one piece at a time and you’ll get it down like I never did!

As Editor-in-Chief of Gear Gods, I've been feeding your sick instrument fetishism and trying unsuccessfully to hide my own since 2013. I studied music on both coasts (Berklee and SSU) and now I'm just trying to put my degree to some use. That's a music degree, not an English one. I'm sure you noticed.